Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 65
“You who have cured so many _boyárs_ and generals, cannot do anything for me!
What happens: cure, not do · To what, where: You, anything
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cured | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cured | aux |
| 5 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 many | advmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boyárs | amod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 boyárs | punct |
| 9 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cured | obj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 boyárs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 generals | cc |
| 12 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 boyárs | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cured | parataxis |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure in a quote | present · perfect · passive | You | who nsubj:pass; many boyárs and generals obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | can | anything | for the soldier = soldier | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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